BEYOND
Choreography by
Laura Peterson
in collaboration with the artists.
Performed by Ching-I Chang, Meredith Fages, Emily Pope and Miho Ryu.
Music composed and performed by Christina Campanella
Emily Pope is a NY based dance artist, teacher, choreographer, and videographer. She received a Bessie for Outstanding Performer in 2020. She currently works with YoshikoChuma and The School of Hard Knocks, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Hilary Easton, Megan Williams,Tiffany Mills Company (where she is rehearsal assistant), and Bodymouth Productions. She has, also, been an all around instructor for the YMCA since 2007. She is honored to be dancing for Laura Peterson for the very first time! She created HoverBound Productions in 2006, in order to create multimedia work in collaboration with local artists. She received three choreographic residencies at Chen Dance Center, and was nominated for The Yard’s Summer Residency in 2011. She also has one Off-Broadway credit for her choreography in “Teenage Dick,” which first previewed at The Public Theater in 2015.
Miho Ryu is a New York based dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist originally from Tokyo, Japan. She holds a BA in Drama from Waseda University and received the Best Dance Choreography Award at the Oniros Film Awards® in 2018. She has created and performed over 100 works, including live performances, films, music videos, and interactive installations, across Europe, Asia, and the United States. After two decades of professional work based in Japan, she returned to New York in 2024, the city where she first trained in contemporary dance from 1999 to 2004. Her recent work has been presented at WestFest Top Floor at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Crossing Boundaries at Dixon Place, Recess at Chez Bushwick, At Capacity/AOCC by at BAX, Inter-grant Festival, Arts On Site, Peridance, Chain Theatre, and Asia Tri Jojga in Indonesia. She currently teaches Contemporary Dance classes at Peridance Center, Ballet Hispanico School, and Steps on Broadway. https://www.ryumiho.com
Laura Peterson, Artistic Director and Choreographer
Laura Peterson is a NYC based dance artist and the Founder and Artistic Director of Open Arts Studio and Laura Peterson Choreography, a non-profit arts organization located in Brooklyn. She creates works that challenge the limits of physicality and reframe performance spaces. Her designs have included large scale paintings, a set made completely from paper, 1,000 sq ft of living lawn, 16ft tall sculptures, and other giant structures.
Laura Peterson’s work has been performed in the US at venues including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, and internationally in Europe and Argentina. Laura Peterson performed her work, SOLO, as part of the Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done. She has been awarded residencies and commissions for the last ten years, including theHERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program (HARP). She was the recipient of a Bogliasco Fellowship and residency in Italy, and multiple residencies at Marble House Project, as well as Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Subcircle Residency, Dance New Amsterdam and others. Her work has been commissioned by Dixon Place (NYC), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for the Sitelines series at the River-to-River Festival, the Queens Museum of Art, and others. She created two works for Nick Cave’s Sound Suits with Balance Dance Company and the Boise Art Museum, as well as repertory for the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Hartford Ballet. Her work has been supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Greenwall Foundation (multi-year support), Trust for Mutual Understanding, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Peterson spent many years teaching classes and choreographing works for universities including Princeton University, Marymount Manhattan College, Rutgers University, Bowdoin College, NYU Tisch School, Long Island University, CUNY Lehman College, and other institutions. She is a current faculty member of The Joffrey Ballet School.
She holds an MFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a BFA in modern dance from University of the Arts.